Sure, there’s the obvious – drunken texts are no way to make a good impression. (Nor is spending the night with your head over a toilet bowl.)

Then there’s the hangover you’ll probably have to deal with the next day, which may include nausea, headache and even more vomiting.

But did you also know excessive drinking can also lead to memory loss?

And that you’re more likely to get injured (in a car crash or otherwise) if you’ve been drinking heavily?

Besides, let’s face it, people don’t tend to make great decisions when they’ve had too much to drink.

You might engage in unprotected sex or other unsafe activities that you might not have dreamed of doing if you were sober.

Long-term, there are even more health risks if you choose to regularly ‘save’ all your drinks to ‘spend’ in one go (which really is just ‘drinking excessively’ in fancier terms).

These include mental health problems such as depression and anxiety, damage to your brain or liver and even an increased risk of certain cancers.

Drinking too much in one go can, in fact, be deadly.

That can be as a direct result of ingesting too much alcohol, or because of the poor decisions you can make when blind drunk, such as getting into the car of someone else who’s been drinking.

Of course, you don’t have to sit in the corner and avoid happy hour altogether.

But instead of ‘saving’ your drinks up for Friday night, you’re better off enjoying a glass or two of your fave drop when the urge hits in the evening, rather than telling yourself it’s okay to scull multiple drinks, as a reward for being ‘good’ all week.